187 passengers reach Mangaluru from Dammam on chartered flight arranged by Mangaluru NRIs
Mangaluru: Trading Allied Industrial Services Corporation, Dammam as a part of its corporate social responsibility, organised a charter flight for the repatriation of standard Kannadigas from Dammam to Mangaluru on Saturday, 22nd August.
Allied Corporation in a release noted it received several requests from the stranded expatriates, who failed to avail seats in earlier charted flights due to scarcity of seats. “There were requests from pregnant women, jobless expatriates, patients who required urgent medicals assistance in the home as they could not afford local medical care. There were expatriates with expired work and family visas who were in dire need. Thus, the Allied team extended their support to the plight of fellow Kannadigas and repatriated them back home” it stated.
Allied Corporation repatriated 175 passengers and 12 infants on Saturday including 38 pregnant women, 32 children, 2 cancer and 1 paralyzed patient, and senior citizens.
Allied Corporation specially thanked to Fayaz Muzzain and Irfan Abdul Khader for their support and assistance in fulfilling all required local government formalities. It also extended gratitude to Indian Embassy officials for their support, Imran Falcon and to Mumtaz Ali for assisting locally.
Allied Corporation is owned by Mangalore based Kannadigas Mr Ameer Hussain and Mr Thouseef Ahmed is been operating since 2011 in the city of Al Jubail Saudi Arabia, employing numerous Kannadigas in petrochemical and refineries sectors.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
